DCN September 2017 - Page 21

Colocation &
Outsourcing
This exciting initiative provides
a borehole into some of the key
data issues that could come to
be defining factors for VR. For
example, imagine if an artist of the
stature of, say, Taylor Swift chooses
to exclusively live stream a concert
in VR on the new channel. This not
only requires robust infrastructure
to be in place to cope with the
sheer volumes of data implicated
in transmitting this immersive
performance all over the world,
but also involves the data centres
where this data is ultimately stored
and proces